Join a dynamic retail business as a Finance Analyst, where you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring accurate and timely month-end accounts with insightful commentary.
You’ll work closely with commercial teams to provide accurate spend forecasts, explain variances, and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L. Your duties will include financial analysis to support decision-making, maintaining spend monitoring systems, and producing variance explanations for period-end accounts.
You’ll also be involved in product, activity, and customer profitability analysis, and ensure adherence to planning timetables and operational processes. Additionally, you’ll manage budget and forecast reconciliations, and operate models to produce sales and spend numbers in line with KPIs.
Working directly with the Head of FP & A and alongside a variety of senior stakeholders across the business; your role will blend both the financial and commercial elements of finance including:
* Ensure accurate & timely month end accounts with insightful commentary. To include balance sheet reconciliations – highlighting risks and opportunities
* Pro-actively work with commercial teams to ensure spend forecasts are accurate & provided in a timely manner with variances clearly explained
* Understand and challenge areas of responsibility in the P&L.
* Provide accurate financial analysis to aid commercial decision making, and dealing with adhoc requests
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